Friday, January 11, 2013

Mount Fuji will sing, Cherry Blossoms will clap their hands



“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
For you shall go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall break forth into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands." 
                                                                                                           - Isaiah 55:11-12


"As the rain and the snow cannot fail to nourish the earth, so God's word or promise cannot fail to bring his people into the richness and fullness of eternal life. Human good intentions fail, but God's promises succeed (cf. 40:6-8). The word of God not only describes a glorious future, it is God's appointed means to create that glorious future (Ez. 37:1-14). 

The prophet concludes ....with a vision of the triumph of God's grace, when the effects of sin and the fall (see Gen. 3:17; 6:11-13) are rectified and the "creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God" (Rom. 8:21). before you. The redeemed, proceeding at last into their eternal joys, are the occasion for the creation to break forth into singing." 
                                              - taken from the English Standard Version Study Bible 



We long for the day when Mount Fuji will break forth into singing, and the Cherry Blossom trees shall clap their hands because of the redeemed children of God in Japan.